THE FAMOUS Baby Safety Research Laboratory in Birmingham is to close'. With only four to five years more research needed to develop methods to save chil -отел LETTOM crippling disorders as cerebral palsy (the spastics disease), th laboratory and research is to be terminated owing ack COT TUneS Despite the fact that only 220,000 l needed to run the unit, the Department of neail nas raused to our us the money laboratory financed by auronabl chantes malor - chanty WniCE provided 240,000, has now lost its funds on the Stock Exchange The very fact that this internationally known research unit was allowed to be financed in this way is a scandal. That the DHSS and the Labour Government are now relusing to provide 220,000 is a demon stration of callous disregard for future children, their mothers and families.
Do concamed is me Labour Governmen to appease the financiers and big busi calls for cuts in social expenditure that it is prepared to allow the health sel
social contract which they now say doesn't apply to them?
A more honest look at the facts behind the dispute would reveal that there are very different reasons behind the strike call. THE VICIOUS CAMPAIGN by the capitalist press against the seamen might make many people believe that the only reasons for the strike threat are the samen's greediness and the manipulation of their leadership by the same tightly-knit band of politically motivated men who manipulated the 1966 strike. After all, isn't it the case that the seamen have already has a £21 increase in average earnings in the past 14 months, and didn't the NUS vote for the same These increases have just been a part of the ongoing battle of seamen to improve their pay and conditions. At